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A56151 Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1660 (1660) Wing P3931; ESTC R2988 41,322 57

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of calling them out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Certainly if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these most transcendent unpresidented unrighteons ungodly sinners who obey not but coutradict all these Gospel Texts appear and what shall their end be Verily the Gospel it self resolves and O that they would with fear amazement of spirit now seriously consider it when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take venge●nce on them they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1.7 8 9. * and shall receive judgement without mercy because they have shewed no mercy but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and Bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship were not the direct Plot of the Spa●i●lized Priests and Jesuit● as well in France as England Spain and elsewhere who contrived and promoted it to their power as I evidenced in my Speech Memento Epistle to my Historical Collection My true a●● perfect Narrative and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large and shall f●rther clear by this ensuing Letter the original whereof I have twice read ●ound by Mr. Sherley a Book-seller in Little Britain in whose hands ●t is amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke ●arre Priest to Don Alonso de Gardenas the Spanish Ambassador which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain 1653. within a year after this Letters date which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen one of them who took a copy thereof promising to shew it to Cromwel himself The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed as is conceived and the Letter imports to this Patricke Carre an Irish Priest and Iesuit under the name of * Don Pedro Garsia the Letter it self is in English written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit sent as an intelligencer by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland and France with whom the English were then in hostility but the direction for Letters to him is in French In the cloze whereof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris expected our Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto whom they stile our brave Parliament as set up by and acting for them should espouse their quarrel and act their pa●ts against the French and joyn with the Prince of Condee to c●t off the King of France his head and all Kings else as they did the King of Englands by their instigation such Antimonarchists Traytors are these Jesuits Irish and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchy Paris 10. of Ianuary 1652. SIR I Was no so ner in Holland then I writ to you but hearing nothing from you I concluded either you were very sick or that you received not my Letter I came hither in an ill time for the Kingdom is in great disorder upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal against all his Declarations This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army If your dull * Archduke make no more advantage of this than of the disorders of the last Summer it 's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE * PRINCE for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE * SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD I le say no more untill I hear from you but that I am Your unfeigned Friend T. Danielle I pray remember me to both my Cozens Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons-Marchant a la rue de pulle The Superscription is thus viz. A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que * Dios garde En Londres 9d There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish some concerning the affairs transactions of the late wars in Ireland found amongst these Books whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite and that the * Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion From the cloze of this Letter let all consider Whether it can be safe for any Popish as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms Courts who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Iustice as well as the late King of England by Cromwell and his Army or their own Subjects and how much all Kings ought to detest his president of the Jesuits contriving let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish Freers in and about London by the Iunctoes and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots Counsels they have vigorously pursued be not the principal contrivers fomentors of all our changes of Government New Sects Opinions Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant there being multitudes of them in and about London under several masks some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day of which there are some late particular Instances I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge Two English Gentlemen of quality one of them of mine acquaintance travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage three strangers who came from London desired leave to passe over with them which they condescending to suspected one of them at least to be a Jes●it by his discourse and during their stay at Paris saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Iesuits habits In August following they being at Angiers in France there repaired to their lodging an Englishman in his Friers weeds who informed them That he was an Englishman by birth but a Dominican Fréer by profession newly come from Salamanca in Spain and bound for England that he had been at Rome where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit who promised to return monies on them in France but had failed to doe it whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England desiring their favour to furnish him with monies which he would faithfully repay in London and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England he would see them safely delivered The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and edu●●tion entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging till they could furnish him
Thou shalt not sow thy Vineyard with divers seeds lest the fruit of thy seed and Vineyard be defiled Thou shalt not plow with an Ox and an Asse together Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of Wollen and Linnen together And as great an Absurdity as that in Horace Humano Capiti cervicem jungere Equinam 3ly Whether it will not be the Extremity of folly and frenzy for this twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto to conceit that Lambert and those Army-Officers who have twice turned them out of Doors with greatest Infamy and branded them with so many deserved Marks of Treachery Injustice Vsurpation Rashnesse Oppression self-seeking or the surviving numerous Members of the ou● long Parliament or the Counties Cities Boroughs Ports for which they served the old House of Peers or our three Kingdoms will ever patiently permit them to sit or Act as a lawfull Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland or submit to any of their Anti-Parliamentary Knacks Taxes Excises Imposts Militia●s Orders or Usurped Regal P●rliamental soveraign legislative Authority without rising up unanimously against them as the worst impudentest sottishest of Trayt●rs Vsurpers Enemies to the Peace and settlement of our 3. Kingdoms as their last Knack of Octob. 12. their Plea and other late publications of their own proclaim them to all the world which they have so miserably oppressed impoverished rent in pieces by their forementioned Treasons Innovations and complying with those ambitious covetous Army-Officers and Jesuitical Emissaries whose designs and their own self-ends they have only pursued to the publike desolation of our Kingdoms and Churches And whether their re-secluding of the Lords House and their old surviving fellow-Members will not be a justification and ground for their own third ejec●ment dissolution by the Army or others if they presume to sit and act again without them 4. Whether there be any probability or possibility considering all the premises that any Common Souldiers Mariners or other inferior Officers in the Army or Navy can expect any real payment of their arrears or future pay or the People of our 3. Nations any Trade Peace Ease Settlement in the least degree but inevitable speedy desolation confusion destruction unless they all cordially unite their endeavours counsels forces for the speedy convening and secure un-interrupted fitting of a full free and Legal English Parliament according to the Act of 17 Caroli cap. 1. and declaring all such Members of the twice-dis●ipated Juncto and Army-Grandees Traitors and Enemies to the publike who shall openly and wilfully oppose this their just and necessary only probable means of their Tranquility Safety Prosperity Which they pretend to aim at in words and Declaration● but diametrically contradict by their Proc●edings as experience manifests past all contradiction 5. Whether our Protestant King his Brethren and follow●rs expelled out of their Protestant Realms and forein Allies Territories into Popish idolatrous forein Quarters where they sojourn to the hazard of their Religion Souls Bodie● by the malice of the dissolved Iuncto Army Republican Saints may not now justly use that Speech of ●nnocent persecuted exiled David to King Saul in the like case and condition 1 Sam. 26.19 If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me let him accept an offring but if they be the Children of men Cursed be they before the Lord for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the Inheritanc● of the Lord saying On serve other Gods And whether God by way of requital for this their transcendent impietie and other premised Crimes Treasons of all sorts wherein they impeni●ently persevere may not justly inflict on the Iunc●o Army-Grandees● and their posterities that severe judgement threatned to the Israelites Jer. 16.13 Deutr. 4.27 28. c. 28.64 65 66. Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord shall lead you and there you shall serve Gods day and night the work of mens hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell where I will not shew you favour And amongst these Nations thou shalt find no ease neither shall the sole of thy feet ●ave rest but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart and fa●ling of eyes and sorrow of mind and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee day and night and thou shalt have non● As●uranc● of thy life In the morning thou shalt say would God it were even and at even tho● shalt say would God it were morning for t●e fear of thine hea●t and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see And there shall ye be sold unto your En●mies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall buy you O tremble at the serious thoughts thereof and be no more stiff-necked 6. Whether the memorable Example of Gods divine Iustice upon Lockier an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principle hand in seising bringing the King to his death cried out Iustice Iustice Iustice openly against him and spit in the Kings face in Westminster Hall when going to his Trial before his condemnation conducted him to the block and was within 3. Moneths after condemned in a Council of War by some of the Kings own Iudges and shot to death as a M●tineer in London 27 April 1649● The tragical self-execution of Thomas Hoyle Alderman and Knight for the City of Yorke one of the Juncto and High Court of Iustice though he signed not the Kings Sentence and one who consented to and subscribed the New Engagement against a King and House of Lords against his conscience fo●mer Oaths Covenant and Protestation he had taken● the horror whereof so terrified his conscience that on the 30. of Ianuary 1649. the very day● Twelvemoneth of the Kings execution he hanged himself with a cord in his Chamber at Westminster about the very time of the day the King was there executed the year before The Execution of sundry Levellers at Burford that year with Iohn Lilburnes double Trial for his life soon after by Cromwels own Prosecution his proceedings against Saxbey Syndercombe and other Levellers though his chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice to seclude the Majority of the Members and suppress the whole House of Lords The sudden and fearfull deaths of Col. Ven Rigby and others of the Kings Judges the cashiering close Imprisonments suff●ings of M.G. Harrison Col. Rich Col. Overton Col. Okey Lord Grey of Grooby and others of the Kings condemners by Cromwell himself who engaged them therein The Removal of Iohn Bradshaw from his Presidentship and Feudes between Cromwell and him who secluded him ou● of his f●●st Instrumental Parliament in 1654. and after that threatned to imprison and question him for his life With the la●e pangs of conscience which Col. William Purefoye sustained